what a bag of a big picture i'm tom arbonne coming up in this half hour if you want to see the devastating results of global capitalism with no farther than camden new jersey why is that city been called a sacrifice zone and why are city officials trying to save money but put the lives of residents at risk and while nearly sixty percent of americans have lost faith in the corporate controlled mainstream media some media mainstays were thought to be untouchable or untouched by corporate corruption one of those mainstays turned dark this week that are so is there any way to get all of this information off over the

airwaves. in the bowels of the us the news unionized n.f.l. referees were back on the field this weekend for the first time since the season began in f.l. as experiment with locking out the refs and replacing them with lower paid scabs proved to be disastrous but even though this labor struggle eventually went in favor of the workers or other labor struggles going on around the nation where workers are in a lot of trouble perhaps none more so than in camden new jersey and his book days of destruction days of reason old pulitzer prize winning journalist and author chris hedges highlights the plight of camden new jersey calling it a sacrifice zone to global capitalism what used to be a booming manufacturing sector an important export hob has been decimal. it turning

can a new jersey into one of the most dangerous cities in america and despite murders within the city on track to break all time records this year kansas is moving to lay off its remaining two hundred seventy three police officers to save money and instead hire non-unionized police officers to handle the streets the police union is suing the city claiming the move will risk public safety joining me now is josh eidelson labor reporter for salon and in these times josh welcome thanks for having me back tom thanks for thanks for joining us it's great to see you again the n.f.l. refs are back but it's not all good news for organized labor. first of all let's explain the difference between actually i'd like to start with canada jersey we just we were just talking about that are we going to see a situation now where if you get stopped by the police in camden new jersey those say here driver's license registration and by the way would you like fries with that well clearly camden is going into relatively on charted territory i mean

there's a real debate to be had about how we reduce crime the role of poverty the approaches around decriminalization of drugs that could affect some of the root causes here but woods disturbing is we see the movement into the public sector of a long time trend in the private sector where you bust the union when i was an organizer in the hotel industry you'd see this all the time where the owner shuts down waits a little while only brings back some of the workers puts up a new sign pretend it's a new business and effectively bust the union and in this case according the times you have a plan to pay similar wages to a new group of workers but take away their union benefits by creating this legal fiction that it's an entirely new police department and might they not just be hiring back the same cops. well under law if they hire back a majority then they're at risk of being caught union busting illegally but if they hire less than a majority if they hire say the forty some percent they like the most or anyone else or if they hire the cops they think are the least likely to organize

a union then they're likely to get away with it and take away people's benefits that's amazing ok the n.f.l. story that that brought to the fore what is a lockout and what's going on here. when you've got scott walker calling for unity groups or when you know you've got something really amazing going on. first of all profile for us or explain to us the difference between a lockout and strike this was something that i had to say a lot of my colleagues in the media missed a lockout is not a strike that's if i had time i grippy that five times in a row a lockout is when management chooses not to let union workers come to work until they get rid of the union or they accept the contract offer that management is willing to live with so as strikes have gone down and unionization has gone down lock outs have become more prevalent in fact i reported for someone that lock outs are more than twice as high a ratio a percentage of work stoppages as they were in the one nine hundred ninety s.

so far in this decade so if your boss can't get what he wants from you at the bargaining table he can kick you out of the job until you come back and you become more pliant didn't that used to be illegal i mean that used to be a violation of the wagner act the national labor relations act and and when did when did it change. lock outs have been going on for decades unfortunately in the hands of management was strengthened by the passage of task tartly as well as by the. supreme court's decision in the k. but lock outs are on the rise because employers increasingly recognize vulnerability in the labor movement go to the goshi ations as a couple experts have said not trying to get more in bargaining but to eliminate the union standard or the union itself in bargaining and it's put in unions on the defensive didn't a lot of the slow really begin with the reagan administration ronald reagan being the first president to appoint a secretary of labor who was actually hostile to labor. whoa ronald reagan

certainly emboldened employers and one of the things we've seen from reagan to scott walker is the fates of the public sector union movement in the private sector union movement are intertwined as we see in camden what we see now with the refs that when you see an attack on the public sector it spills over into the private sector and vice versa and certainly reagan made a signal and scott walker me the signal that you can go for the juggler and get away with it and employers have taken notice they certainly have josh eidelson thank you so much for being with us tonight thank you very much. now from the fight for organized labor to the fight for the ninety nine percent happy birthday occupy d.c. demonstrations took place all across the nation's capital today as occupy participants marked the one year anniversary of the occupation of washington d.c. targeting the corruptive influence of lobbyists on our government demonstrators plan to shut down k. street corporate capture of our democracy is more evident than ever today which is why we need grassroots movements in the streets to push back against it speaking of

that joining me now for more on what we've learned in the years since occupy d.c. was birth and where it goes from here is robert stephen the second to last in an occupy protest but robert great to see you back yet think it's going to be back thanks for joining us so what's what's the state of occupy d.c. right now. as you talked about earlier we had demonstrations today that a lot of people participated in a lot of people said they had a lot of fun sitting down k. street there were doors of lobbyist organizations that had bungee cords tied to them so that people couldn't get in because protesters had stormed a few of the buildings and so people were they caused a lot of disruption in the lot of drew a lot of attention to what really has been a kind of in the shadows the lobbying infrastructure of this country hasn't really been at the forefront as far as like what specific groups are doing specific working with specific projects so this brought

a lot of attention to those people unwanted attention in their minds and so i think that was a productive event. don't you think that the average american gets the k.-street has owns congress. yes and no because i think if the average american understood that maybe voting patterns would be a little different where they'd be standing next to you exactly. i think what's important what's most important to me about this event is that is not what happened in the spectacle on the streets so much as the works. when behind the scenes as far as the people who dedicated hours and hours of time to play in these events make a lot of the signs that you saw. building the community that. was able to make this event like this possible and i think community action networks those are the enduring legacy of the what i call the occupy moment i don't really call it occupy movement because i think it was a moment of time where people really converged and met one another opened up space

and it was a rupture that released a lot of energy that has really changed not just the discourse but changed people's lives over the last year and so i think that's the important thing i make a historical comparison to the sit ins i think there is a sit in moment to much that particular tactic is very effective but what happened after the sit ins which were started by a few black college students in north carolina so you have people like baker come in and create a slick new network emerged around this tactic can spread throughout the south throughout the country and so you have this new network in these new communities and maybe eventually begin to sprout off into different directions and by linking these struggles to go that's what created the broader movement so i think that occupy was a moment in which there was a space that opened energy was released and you have networks that emerged dealing with different issues whether you take the home foreclosure defenses or

a number of other issues and by releasing that energy and working on solidarity with the teachers' union in chicago for example a lot of people went and supported that. police uprisings in anaheim earlier this summer and a lot of people from occupy supported that but not just occupy the new networks and communities that have emerged as a result because i was thousands of miles away from california but i felt intimately connected to that struggle that was going on because of these new communities in these networks and i think that's the enduring one. and you expect these communities to endure oh yeah. once you get involved in the excitement of really manifesting your ideas collectively and collaboratively in this really dynamic way the action that you posted that was in the video before this people planned and then it happened you know that kind of feeling people don't really get that in their day to day lives yeah so. being involved in the

issues directly affecting them now that was just a street action one of the things that i think is really critical has been the occupy home. organizing that's happening which has had. died over these foreclosures and now we have people to talk to them there's a lot of robert stevens thanks so much for being with us again yes. thanks. for your average video game a creative minds over the plate of come up with a very unique way to pick the twenty twelve presidential race they turned it into a series of animated video game today they released the first video of a political combat well series an animated fight between mitt romney and the duel

permanent rick santorum set in the fictitious land of obama ville romney fight santorum using moves like tax evasion and olympic savior santorum counters with a swagger bust and this claim call herman cain joins the me like he unleashes his nine nine nine attack on romney romney counters with another round of tax evasion towards the end of the epic battle santorum even manages to give romney a dose of church and state. videos are no doubt are doing their due out of the series all leading up. to the fly now a battle between royale between president obama and romney one can only wonder about the moves of the future character paul ryan had an austerity attack on iran the rand roundhouse kick. it up you know the mainstream news media is a joke when even one of the most historic trusted influential political news programs gives in to corporate corruption what happened on meet the press this weekend i want can you do to stop the steady stream of misinformation that's out of

your t.v. so you and i feel it. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that many americans call a dollar. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot about what you say are through you know what kind of mind they can sell. i want to listen to futurism. you distract us from what you and i should care about because there are profit driven industry that will stick garbage because that breaking news i'm happy martin and we're going to break that.

so sometimes you know it you know in the senate you know i just don't know and sometimes is the firesign theater says everything you know is wrong. if you you're right. that's. right you're right. and you go to. the lone wolf ask any law enforcement official an adult tell you it's their worst nightmare the single gunman with no ties to terrorism who goes on an unexpected killing spree much like james holmes did in the aurora colorado shooting just a few months ago and while it's hard to pinpoint why individuals like home suddenly decide to kill people research suggests the psychiatric medications may be a factor so if you think the psychiatric medications are helping to prevent unthinkable crimes like shooting sprees rather than fueling them and everything you

know might be wrong i mean now is dr peter breggin a psychiatrist and former full time consultant with the national institutes of mental health he's also the author of numerous books including his latest psychiatric drug withdrawal dr brugge dr breggin excuse me welcome and i'm glad to be on your show again thank you for joining us. these psychiatric drugs do they promote violence and if so which categories of them are more likely to do that than others. well there's no doubt at all that many psychiatric drugs can promote violence the anti depressants often stimulating drugs they can produce mania people in a state of mania can become violent. there's these drugs also the n.i.v. present about like selects a paxil zoloft they can produce something called aqa physio which is an unbearable sense of being tortured that sometimes leads people to be violent and they can dole empathy dull caring which can contribute to unleashing violence i've seen and

evaluated friends equally dozens of cases of violence from the newer antidepressants the stimulant drugs like amphetamine meth and fan a day which is ritalin adderall these drugs also dettori asli can cause people to get violent and we know that from them on the street drugs like a methamphetamine and cocaine that over stimulating the brain can leave each of the unleashing of violence and the bends the bends of that species like vallium and librium and clonopin. xanax in particular you think they're supposed to tranquilize people but they can act like alcohol and disinhibited and that disinhibited just like outlook can unleash violence and sometimes it's a combination of drugs there's just no doubt that disrupting the chemistry of the brain. can lead to

a loss of our usual control our usual inhibitions then there are times though when the biochemistry of the brain is dysfunctional to begin with for you know. and arjun's for x. . factors i mean. it almost almost doesn't matter is it is there or are there are there times and places when these drugs are appropriate well first the whole idea of the bio chemical imbalance was made up inside eli lilly when they were getting of rid. and you do promote prozac even before was approved by the f.d.a. they were sending around doctors to talk about bio chemical imbalance so that that's of that's just pure nonsense. you know whether the drugs have an appropriate place in my practice i find that i can deal with situations without the use of psychiatric drugs i think it's a choice for people provided they have an idea about the risks associated with them and the drugs i was just talking to you about can cause suicide to people need to know that well and and in fact you know let's talk about that

a little bit the black labeling of some of these drugs particular the s s r i's my understanding is that. people people come in and they say you know the world is too intense and so ok here's a drug that dals down the world what bad drug does is it diminishes their ability to experience their own emotions they're also not so much experiencing other people's emotions and at that point other people cease to be people they become objects and then at that point it's not a huge step for a very small number of people to start shooting at them is that a. reasonable lay analysis of what what you're talking about i think it's a great description tom i i think it's a great description of what happens to a lot of people you know our front to lol that's us you know that's what makes civilized it's what we're culture exists it's what allows us to love and care and to control ourselves and all psychoactive substances impair frontal lobe function

and then it becomes somewhat of a throwing of the dice as to where that impairment may lead a person. but all psychoactive substances impair the highest functions or they wouldn't be psychoactive. dr brian. the black labeling of the black box or block labeling some of these drugs are actually labeled with warnings and say this may cause suicide that's an extension of the same thing isn't. it very just have a few yes yeah definitely so we have black box warnings on all of mood stabilizers like depakote integrity and we've got the black box labels and an i.d. presence about the risks of suicide and on street terror which is a judge radiates so this is no question at all and we've actually been able to show now with a very good study of all the reports sent into the f.d.a. that some drugs are far more dangerous than others and at the top of the list your

s.s.r.i. that is the newer stimulating and i depressants good scientific data on that dr peter bergen thank you so much for being with us tonight thank you now everything you know about psychiatric medications and their effects maybe right. clearly the mainstream news media has failed us cable news is a joke that relies on infotainment rather than need to know news that americans have lost faith in a recent gallup poll shows that a record high sixty percent of the nation say that they don't have very much trust anymore in the corporate news sure we all know the cable outlets like fox c.n.n. amasa b.c. are not doing all the great but a lot of people out there still think there are institutions in the media that are

in corruptible that are still as pure as when they were first created one of those used to be meet the press the sunday morning news in a very interview program which is the longest running television series in american broadcast history at the. press is supposed to be the mainstream media's standard bearer show all americans can rely on to inform them i watched the meet the press this last sunday i can tell you it too has been corrupted like the rest of the corporate media consider for a moment the big issues facing the nation today is the corruption of our government by big money and a republican congressional pact to destroy the president politically producing the least productive and least popular congress on record as the two thousand soldier who just died in afghanistan there are the ongoing drone strikes which are inflaming anti in our american sentiments in the middle east there's the environmental crisis there's the manufacturing crisis there's the health care crisis there's the student loan debt crisis there are movements in the streets

there are numerous big issues that americans need to know about that our democracy requires we know about and the programs like meet the press used to cover but don't anymore instead of those big issues instead all that news we need to know here are the questions that david gregory asked to chris christie instead. governor welcome back to meet the press happy to be back to have a good morning let's look at the state of the race how do your restart a campaign governor at that last moment where you can reach tens of millions of people how does he go large at this point governor are we going to get those details in the course of the debate this forty seven percent comment not simply a misstatement this was a pretty thoughtful accounting of a government dependent society in romney's view you admit it's done political damage i want to end with this is you know political reviews are are tough things sometimes and it was a tough for you from you for you as the keynoter at the republican convention are you still the future of this party do you believe. that of an important all those

questions have the same goal to basically trivialize the issues and turn the election into a horse race that's what the media is doing today turning this election into a horse race because they know as long as they can keep it closed that means more ratings for them and more ratings for them means more ad revenue and. quarterly profits for the small handful of corporations that own over ninety percent of our news media said of asking chris christie about his poor speech of the r. and c. i don't ask him why he's rubber stamping corporate and pieces of legislation from the american legislative exchange council alec why is it why is he promoting those as governor several groups including common cause people for the american way center for media democracy or out with a new report showing that christie in new jersey lawmakers have introduced twenty two bills in the two thousand and ten that are current copies of official corporate written legislation coming out of the american legislative exchange council or alec so perfect question for gregory would have been governor you think it's ok that corporations and lawmakers are writing the laws new jersey or maybe ask the

governor why he's diverting critical funds millions of dollars they were supposed to help struggling homeowners in his state toward filling budget holes created by his tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy unfortunately those questions are never asked they don't fit in with the horse race election agenda at the corporate media is now so committed to so what do we learn that's the question we should be asking ourselves after watching corporate news programs especially those programs that are supposed to be the standard bearers like meet the press and the answer that question every tape every time will be we haven't learned much about you i meet the press we learn that chris christie doesn't think the presidential race is over yet and that the debates might impact the polls wow did you see that one coming and we learned that chris christie has no regrets about his r. and c. speech shockey. and if that was all we needed to know to be an informed voter this election then the corporate media gets an a plus. but we know that's not the case none of that is as important as the real issues in this crucial election all that

stuff is theater it's infotainment corporate media has lost its mission statement which is to inform not to provide bread and circus while everything falls apart around us from the one nine hundred twenty instant one thousand nine hundred seven the media was required by law to provide actual news regardless of its entertainment value so the stations could get their broadcast licenses renewed every year reagan did away with that and within a year or two all of the news networks all the news divisions of the big networks had come under the oversight of the entertainment divisions and the profit seeking bean counters thousands of reporters were laid off or fired hundreds of bureaus around the nation the world were closed so today we live in a media world so bizarre but the majority of registered republicans actually believe global warming is a hoax and president obama is a secret muslim who was born in kenya. the simple reality of so many american citizens being so badly misinformed particularly as we go into an election that is

going to mold the next generation particularly by its impact on the supreme court nominees that should give us all pause and should make us demand a return to the f.c.c. rules that reagan stopped and foreseen in one thousand nine hundred seventy which required programming in the public interest not just in the interest of corporate shareholders as thomas jefferson so eloquently and repeatedly pointed out. our democracy depends. and that's the way it is tonight monday october first two thousand and twelve for more information on any of the stories we covered visit our website to tom hartman dot com three speech dot org dot com and if you missed any of the night show you can now watch it on h.d.d. on hulu and hulu dot com slash the big picture also check out our two you tube channels there are lots of thom hartmann dot com also to our an icon chart of all the different ways you can send us your feet and don't forget democracy begins with you get out there get active tag your it see them.

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